Ok, I let my computer go into standby after 30 minutes.... Well instead of just going into standby it just says no thanks I'll shut down... Getting very annoying and I can't figure out for the life of me why it wont just go into standby..

Oh, its not just power loss either, I left my speakers on last night and it made the wonderful windows shut down tones.

what are your temps like in your system anymore? Also, are you using Vista when it does it or xp?

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XP.... Temps are fine, and to be check I turned off the automatic shut down in my bios.

Just started doing it not too long ago, I can't for the life of me figure it out, I just updated the bios again and some drivers, also checked and re-setup all my bios options... Going to see if its still doing it here shortly...

Right now I'm tied up wondering why my ram wont go to 1T like I'm telling it to in my bios, it takes the setting and when I check it in windows still says 2T.

S3 and yes its enabled... I have not changed any bios settings.... Its still not working either... I almost think its a windows issue... It says Preparing Standby or whatever, then click its off.

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VIsta or XP? (For XP) Check Controll Panel > Power Options and check all tabs for different options that may be shutting you down. While in CP check Task Manager also, to ensure nothing is there you don't know about.

Hmm..weird...my G/F's PC pretty much shuts down when in Stand-By mode, no fans, lights, hdd's, just enough voltage to keep info stored in RAM, then I must push the power button and it turns on and is in windows as soon as the monitor flickers back to life instead of POST. I don't use that stuff though, I'm either using my system or it's off.

You might be right on that. Reinstalling xp may fix all that. I know its a pain, but it might work... Or, what I've done in the past when xp f'd up and a few others I know have, get a new hdd. Make that the reason to get bigger space!
I hope it gets fixed soon for you man and good luck!

You might be right on that. Reinstalling xp may fix all that. I know its a pain, but it might work... Or, what I've done in the past when xp f'd up and a few others I know have, get a new hdd. Make that the reason to get bigger space!
I hope it gets fixed soon for you man and good luck!

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hey, if your computer is fast enough, it will only take like 15 minutes to install XP back on.

but if you got games like WoW on there...than youll be sitting there for a little bit longer installing them back on.